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Birds
Wood stork
Wood stork · Mycteria americana
Wood storks with white plumage and a distinctive bill move slowly through swamps – revealing the quiet life of hidden wetlands.
Fact file
- Size
- Height about 100 cm, wingspan over 150 cm, weight 2 to 4 kg
- Males and females
- Females and males look the same, males usually slightly larger
- Sounds
- Adults call rarely, young birds make loud, rattling sounds in the nest
- Diet
- Mainly small fish, but also frogs, crabs and insects
- Offspring
- 2 to 5 eggs per clutch, incubation around 30 days, young birds fledge after about 2 months
How to identify Wood stork
Wood storks are large, elegant birds with predominantly white plumage. Particularly striking are the black flight feathers at the wing tips, which look like black ribbons in flight. The unfeathered, grey-black head and the long, thick, slightly downcurved bill give them a distinctive silhouette.
At about one metre tall with a wingspan of over 1.50 metres, wood storks are an impressive sight. Their long, pinkish legs and bare neck clearly distinguish them from other marsh birds in their habitat.
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- general viewing tips
Where Wood stork live
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